Dear Rog,
I agree with you (2/3 19:56 -0500) that the social level is 'about social
interaction and working together and roles and status and division of
labor.' The social level indeed 'does involve a contest between the group
and the individual.' The question is however what that contest is about.
As I wrote 3/3 0:00 +0100:
'Contests between individual and group are internal to the 3rd level: they
are usually conflicts about whether certain practices have proven to work or
not if (only) an individual has tested them.'
The question is what is the 'lowest level of Dynamic Quality that is
secured' by 'social interaction, working together, division of labor' etc:
preservation of practices that prove to work, in my opinion.
The biological level is all about life, but I don't think your formulation
of the biological principle as 'it is better to adapt' misses the mark by
leaving out the value of life as compared to death.
Likewise the social level is all about social interaction, but
'togetherness' itself is not the value that it secures. What the social
level primarily secures is better ways to preserve life: a service to the
biological level.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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